NAMES BY WHICH IT IS KNOWN 



Names Used in the Literature in Referring to the Ruffed Grouse 



Bv non-English speaking races 

 Indian names 



bi-ne (grouse in general) 



carpenter bird 



ka-xit'1-se 



kh-tuk (Eskimo) 



kwi-ut -- pah-uta 



pupuskee 



puskee 



wen gi-da-bi-iie (Chippewa! 



French 

 gelinotte 

 greoche 

 griais 

 griesche 



English 

 grous 

 moor fowl 

 more-hen 

 ruffled heathcotk 



Canadian 

 liirch partridge I Br. ProNiiues) 

 Canada ruffed jirouse 

 Canadian ruffed grouse 

 French hens I Labrador and Quebec) 

 patridgp (Maritime Provinces) 

 shoulder-knot grouse 

 white-flesher 

 while-nieated grouse 

 willow grouse (Br. Col.) 



Northeastern L niled Stales 

 American partridge 

 birch ])artridgp (Maine) 

 comnion partridge 

 drunnning grouse (New York) 

 eastern ruffed grouse (connnon) 

 partridge (conunon) 

 palridge (common) 

 ruffed grouse (common) 

 wood-pile quawker (Long IsLind ) 



Fren ch -Canadian 

 attagen Pennsylvaniae 

 coq de bruyere a fraise 

 grosse gelinotte du Canada 

 la gelinot hupee de Pensilvania 

 la grosse gelinotte de Canada 

 la perdix ordinaire 

 perdrix franc 



German 

 fesond 

 haselhuhn 



Scandinavian 

 hjerpe 



By English-speaking races 



Southern United Stales 

 moore fowl (So. Carolina) 

 inounlain cock (Carolinas) 

 inoiinlain grous (Carolinas) 

 riMiuiitaiii partridge (Virginia) 

 rnouiitaiii pheasant (Virginias and Carolinas) 

 pheasant (common ) 

 ruffed grouse (common) 



Western United Stales 

 fool hen (Rocky Mts.) 

 Oregon grouse 



pats (Michigan and New England) 

 pine hen ( Vi asatch Mis.) 

 .^abincs grouse 

 western ruffed grouse 

 wood pheasant 

 woods pheasant (Ozarks — Missouri) 



